THE BEST SELLER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1116, 2 May 1911, Page 5

THE BEST SELLER.

. V 7,000,000 BIBLES ISSUED IN 1910 i By Telegraph—Press Association—Gopyrielu (Roc. May 1, 9.30 p.m.) London,' May 1. Tho British and Foreign Bible.Society, during 1910, issued seven million Bibles, Testaments, Gospels, and Psalters, in 132 languages. Embossed Bibles for the blind were published in 33 languages. [Tho above figures do not represent the total output of Bibles, for the American Bible Society and other Bible-printing institutions also liavo very large outputs.] THE OLD BOOK TOPS THE LIST. Last year the various Bible societies printed and circulated 11,378,854 Bibles. More Bibles were sold than any other hundred books together. In the 10G years of it's existenco the British and Foreign Bible Society has issued 220,000,000 copies of Scriptures, and its annual output is steadily rising, that of 1909 being 685,000 copies in excess of the year preceding. In all the lists of best sellers the old Books maintain their place at the head, says the New York "Sun," topped by the oldest of :all, the one whoso very name means tho "Book." For of the Bible the sales are recorded in figures beyond the grasp of the average mind, not in hundreds of thousands or millions even, but in hundreds of millions. An ingenious calculator, computing that about 200,000,000 copies were in circulation aud reckoning tho average size to be 5 by GV and 1} inches, figured up that 5,612,260 cubic feet of Bibles are in existence, from which a wall six feet high could be built to reach 400 miles, from London to Geneva. Switzerland. One sheet made from the paper used would cover 515.12.T acres; volume by volume an area of 103G acres would be covered. A fleet of eighty vessels would be required to transport tho volumes, each vessel averaging 1340 tons.